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Show 54 offever. filorbid anatonay still more plainly appears to have been exerted ted to the dura mater being sometimes agglutina upon the abdominal and contiguous viscera. h blood, pia mater, the blood-vessels turgid wit The outer surface of the stomach, intestines usual; as if injected, the brain firmer than and liver announcing, by their livid yellow co1our, inflammation and gangrene-the liver some water frequently in the ventricles; and es. times blood effused between the mening sphacelated and, as it were, boiled. at in: The stomach was always diseased; gre erosions of flammation observable throughout; The brain and its meninges commonly injected: slight effusion in the ventricles-During the similar epidemic of1800, in Spain, Professors Ameller Sabater, and Ramos found in the abdo- of cases the villous coat frequent, in a number floating in detached pieces as large as a dollar, h (listhe black vomit-blood-vessels very muc minal viscera the intes- tended-inflammation extended to sanious and purulent effusion as house surgeon to the Philadelphia dispen- pancreas, tines; bladder diseased; liver, spleen, rdium, kidneys generally sound-lungs, perica and heart inflamed. Dr. Mitchell, (Philad. Medical flfusemn (p. yel- 3-4) mentions three dissections after the cted; low fever, in which the brain was not affe and in other cases, where he left the head uner opened, he saw much disease in the oth h viscera. In persons who had been affected wit hthe disease in an extreme degree at the Bus hill hOSpital, Dr. Cathrall (on Synochus Maliguna 1794) found the brain entirely " in a nat sary, seems to have had great opportunities of stines ral condition," but the stomach and inte with gangrene. It is expressly said that, in the two other great cavities, the head and the thorax, essential changes were seldom found. In some subjects, however, black gangrenous points appeared upon the lungs, and in others, upon the brain. "The alterations in the abdominal viscera were the only ones that can be considered as the direct and immediate product of the essential morbific causes.'"-Berthe, Precis ([0 la llfaladie (l'Amlalousie, 1802:- p. 189-5. vomit/v Hiu ‘ Dr. St. Ffirth, one of the latest writers, (who dissection, and whose account implies that he used them) in his dissertation on malignant {ever (Philadelphia, 1804) tells us, that the brain was generally found in a diseased state; the meninges being considerably inflamed, tllfi dura our of greatly diseased. It is strongly in fav y were the accuracy ofthese dissections that the sick. made with the assistance of Dr. Phy ever The blood-vessels of the brain were how found 'im |